GTC Center for Collegiate Recovery

The Center for Collegiate Recovery at GTC delivers student-driven services and recovery-oriented community development for achieving collegiate health and academic excellence. Our daily vision for students practicing or seeking recovery is to experience continuous support, graduate from college, and achieve success in life.

The Center for Collegiate Recovery is committed to ensuring that students practicing or seeking recovery graduate from Greenville Technical College.

WHAT WE DO

The guiding priorities of the Center for Collegiate Recovery are to recruit, retain, and graduate GTC students and families by promoting Recovery Engagement and Access for Collegiate Health and Educational Success (REACHES). The Center for Collegiate Recovery Program provides students with recovery-oriented staff, safe social and study space, student-driven activities, academic support, and recovery services.

Connecting with the Center for Collegiate Recovery reinforces each person's unique recovery journey by establishing and strengthening confidence and competence, shared knowledge, lived experiences, and applied skills to achieve success in careers, families, and communities. Being a part of the Collegiate Recovery Community at GTC provides the opportunity to have fun, work hard, develop a reliable community network, give back, and build positive relationships with yourself and your peers.

SERVICES & ACTIVITIES

The Center for Collegiate Recovery at GTC is about recovery support, academic and career success, community service and leadership, and student-driven activities including:

Recovery coach-supported study space, academic guidance, and technology resources
Facilitated recovery community connection
Recovery engagement, management, and enhancement
One-on-one support from director, recovery services coordinator, and recovery coaches
A continuum of recovery and clinical support via collaboration with GTC Counseling Services
On-demand recovery coaching and advising
Bi-weekly group recovery meetings
Community empowerment activities
Adventures-in-Recovery (AiR) events
Community service and leadership opportunities
Participation in semester, yearly, and graduation celebrations of progress and recovery

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

RECOVERY: Students will navigate the challenges of college life and recovery from substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions and graduate from GTC

Strategic Objective 1: Identify students in recovery who already attend GTC.
Strategic Objective 2: Identify faculty/staff who can contribute assets to the CCR mission and vision
Strategic Objective 3: Offer recovery services, community engagement, and academic support for students.

EDUCATION: GTC students and faculty/staff are informed and develop competencies for recovery, wellness and resilience, facilitating over all student persistence, retention, and graduation.

Strategic Objective 1: Spearhead campus and community awareness events and activities.
Strategic Objective 2: Develop and implement recovery-informed trainings about substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions for GTC departments and programs.
Strategic Objective 3: Engage GTC faculty and staff in recovery-to-practice education and certification.

ACCESS: Collegiate Recovery is available on GTC campuses, providing education, recovery support, and community engagement.

Strategic Objective 1: Increase access to support and community engagement for recovering students.
Strategic Objective 2: Increase awareness about the CCR throughout the GTC system and stakeholder network.
Strategic Objective 3: Set up, maintain, and promote our CCR recovery-orienting student space for groups, social activities, recovery services and academic support.

COLLEGIATE HEALTH: Ensure that students practicing or seeking recovery at GTC have the knowledge and opportunity to engage healthy lifestyles and achieve academic success

Strategic Objective 1: Foster collegiate health through practicing recovery, wellness, and resilience.
Strategic Objective 2: Acknowledge the critical period of collegiate life when both challenges and opportunities can increase vulnerability to mental health and substance use risks.
Strategic Objective 3: Facilitate the development of a Student Organization (GTC Students for Recovery) with a focus on celebrating Recovery and giving back to the community through service.